Portable fence



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G. H. IVBS.

EOETABLE EENGEa Patented Apr 'messes UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEO GEORGE II. IvEs, OE MARTIN, MICHIGAN.

PORTABLE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,038, dated April 7, 1885.

Application filed August 14, 1S84.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEO. H. IvEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Martin, county of Allegan, State of lVIichigan,V have invented a new and useful Portable Fence, of which the following is a specification.

. My invention consists in certain improvements in fences, hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure lis a side view of a fence; Fig. 2, an end elevation, portions being in section and broken away; Fig. 3, an enlarged broken portion in perspective, and Fig. 4 an end elevation showing achange in position of parts, with portions in section.

Ihe panels consist of board B, or rails, if preferred, and end pieces, D. The top ends of the end pieces, D, are provided with gains o on opposite corners, Fig. 3. conforming to the position of the stakes r r, which rest therein. The stakes r r, crossing over the top Ofthe panels and resting in the gains o, hold the panels from getting out of place by an endwise movement. The stakes are pivotally connected With the bed-pieces F, and loosely rest over the panels at the end thereof, said stakes being even on the edges which engage said panl els. Thus when the fence is located across a hillside the pivoted stakes will slip where .they engage or rest on the panels, the upper (No niodci.)

placement and yet permit it to rest detachably on the ground. The panels are provided with center pieces, t, on Opposite sides of every other panel, which are extended above the top board or rail, in order to engage the sides of the rider P, thus bracing the panels. If it is desired to anchor the fence in any instance, a loop-wire may be secured around the bottom of the panels, and a headed stake, y, may be driven through said loop into the ground, Figs. 1 and 2. The rider P is composed of spliced sections provided with gains a, in which lock- Y pins are placed. Thus by binding the rider down by means of binders c, passing over the splicedportion of the rider and tied to the bed-pieces below, the rider is not only bound sections having the gains in the engaging surfaces of their lapped ends, the lock-pins in said gains, and the binders attached to the bedsupports and passed over the lapped ends of the rider-sections, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed niy naine in the presence of two witnesses.

GEO. H. IVES.

Vitnesses:

FRANcIs W. RANDALL, JOHN H. CIIAsE. 

